RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT, ROXBURGH.

Dunstan Times, Volume 601, Issue 601, 24 October 1873, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT, ROXBURGH.

Tuesday, Oct 21. (Before W. L. Hiupson, Esq.. IBM.) P.ilicav. Shun ait. This was a ei mpkunt win ret y the defendant was il.aif.ecl with a Breach of the Medical Practitioners’ Act, an;l avow out of a case he ird at the last siltin 'of the Court, when the now Defendant, was Plaintiff, and sued for medical services rencleici. Mr. Mou.it, Solicitor, appeared for defendaot, and pit adttl not guilty.. Fr< m the evident e, it appealed that Defendant, who is a foreigner, was more sinned against than sinning, as he had Been fo’ced By circumstances to tender professional sei vices, and afterwards Being refused payment, compelled to sue for Ids claim. Mr. Mouat han led in a document purporting to Be a diploma from a German University. Tlie Bench Being unable to procure a litera'e translation of the same, sugg- s ed an adjournin-nt. The Defendant tai l he had an engagement at Invercargill, that would render his attending at an alj mr le I sitt ngv,n- inconvenient, and tluougb his Solicitor pleaded guilty. The Bench liurupon recorded a line ■i .aiiist Defendant of L.2, an I the Cos:, of i 'ourt. Ayling v. Cox. Paid into Court. G. M ‘Clay’s application for a slaughterBig License was refused, the yard not b jin , erected. IL Patrick’s application for a spirit License, was v fus d. ■J. Low and anr. v. Ay'in? This was an adj urneil case from last Court day to produce skiilel witnesses. Mr. Mouat appeart d for Plaintiffs. The particulars of the ease are as follows—De endant borrows a chaff-cutter ran Plaintiffs, an 1 breaks it. P.d itilfs rcf t'e to receive it in its damaged state, and sre for ibe full value, dud ment for 11/., Defendant to keep tbe chaff-cutter,